Inference-based profiling of sensitive attributes

https://taxonomy.eticas.ai/risk/inference-based-profiling

Maturity: established

Inference of sensitive attributes or characteristics — emotional states, political opinions, sexual orientation, health status, and similar — from behavioural, interaction, or other proxy data the individual did not directly disclose. Generalises the former emotion-inference-profiling concept beyond emotion recognition to inference-based profiling at large.

System type: ADM and LLM systems
Lifecycle stages: In Processing, Post Processing

Mappings to external frameworks

Standards & frameworks

Framework Reference
EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) Article 5(1)(f) — emotion recognition in workplace and education (prohibited)
EU AI Act (Regulation 2024/1689) Article 5(1)(g) — biometric categorization for sensitive attributes

Taxonomies & vocabularies

Framework Reference
AIR 2024 Privacy → Sensitive attribute profiling